“I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid.” WorldWayShouldKindArtSelfFeelingsAudienceCreativeExpressionIndustryExpectationsExcitedEngagementConstraintsSelf Expression Author:Ayad Akhtar
“I see the American experience as being defined by the immigrant paradigm of rupture and renewal: rupture with the old world, the old ways, and renewal of the self in a bright but difficult New World.” WorldWaySelfDifficultDefinedImmigrantsNew WorldRenewalParadigmOld WorldOld WaysRupture Author:Ayad Akhtar
“I consider myself to have been formed by a lot of the locutions and aesthetics and principles of the Muslim way of life, and those are an important part of my childhood and my identity.” WayHas BeensImportantPrinciplesChildhoodIdentityAesthetics Author:Ayad Akhtar
